Eurolect in Translation on the Move: Diachronic Variation of Translation of the Passive in Institutional-Legal Texts

Vladislav Hrežo, Klaudia Bednárová-Gibová

Abstract


This study scrutinizes interlingual Eurolect from the perspective of the use of passive structures in the English language versions of EU institutional-legal texts while monitoring their variations in translation in the Slovak language versions. For the purpose of observing the diachronic variations in institutional translation, specific English-Slovak parallel corpora were compiled. The translational analysis draws on a text-based and corpus-driven approach while incorporating a mixed-method as a fusion of both qualitative and quantitative research in order to provide the most relevant outcome. To enable the quantitative analysis of the corpora to be accomplished precisely and time-efficiently, we employed the Sketch Engine Corpus Query Tool. The research findings reveal an increasing tendency in the use of passives in EU translation when comparing post-accession and contemporary subcorpora, suggesting a shift in English-Slovak translation practice despite institutional recommendations.  


Keywords


Eurolect; corpus linguistic tools; CQL (corpus query language); diachronic approach; EU translation; institutional-legal texts; multilingual (parallel) corpora; passive structures.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2022.46.2.45-60
Date of publication: 2022-06-30 21:55:46
Date of submission: 2022-03-13 12:10:36


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